Implementing ARAL-ORCH Profile

Information

ARAL-ORCH extends ARAL-CORE with Layer 6 (Orchestration). Requires all L1-L5 requirements from ARAL-CORE plus 26 orchestration requirements.

This guide shows how to extend your ARAL-CORE agent with orchestration capabilities for managing teams of agents.

ARAL-ORCH Requirements

ARAL-ORCH adds 26 new requirements on top of ARAL-CORE’s 68:

Implementation Roadmap

Phase 1: Core Orchestration (Weeks 1-2)

Extend Runtime

Add team lifecycle management to the runtime

Implement Team Manager

Build the orchestrator that coordinates agents

Add Workflow Engine

Implement workflow planning and execution

Define Strategies

Build all 4 execution strategies (sequential, parallel, consensus, hierarchical)

Phase 2: Advanced Features (Weeks 3-4)

Load Balancing

Distribute work across team members intelligently

Consensus Mechanisms

Implement voting and agreement protocols

Monitoring

Add metrics, logging, and health checks

Resilience

Implement failover, rollback, and recovery

Team Configuration

Define your orchestration team in JSON:

{
  "team": {
    "id": "support-team",
    "name": "Customer Support Team",
    "description": "Multi-tier customer support",
    "agents": [
      {
        "id": "router",
        "name": "Request Router",
        "role": "manager",
        "specialization": "classification",
        "priority": 1
      },
      {
        "id": "technical",
        "name": "Technical Support",
        "role": "specialist",
        "specialization": "troubleshooting",
        "priority": 2
      },
      {
        "id": "billing",
        "name": "Billing Support",
        "role": "specialist",
        "specialization": "accounts",
        "priority": 2
      }
    ]
  },
  "orchestration": {
    "defaultStrategy": "hierarchical",
    "consensusThreshold": 0.7,
    "maxConcurrent": 5,
    "executionTimeout": 30000,
    "retryPolicy": {
      "maxRetries": 3,
      "backoffStrategy": "exponential"
    }
  }
}

Execution Strategies Comparison

Strategy	Use Case	Latency	Cost	Complexity
Sequential	Dependencies between steps	High	Low	Low
Parallel	Independent tasks	Low	High	Medium
Consensus	Critical decisions	Medium	High	High
Hierarchical	Complex oversight	Medium	Medium	High

Monitoring and Metrics

Track orchestration performance:

interface OrchestrationMetrics {
  workflowsExecuted: number;
  averageLatency: number;
  successRate: number;
  agentUtilization: Map<string, number>;
  consensusAgreement: number;
  failureRate: number;
  totalDuration: number;
}

Conformance Checklist

Testing ARAL-ORCH

Unit Tests

describe('TeamOrchestrator', () => {
  it('should execute sequential workflows', async () => {
    const result = await orchestrator.execute(sequentialPlan);
    expect(result.length).toBe(3);
    expect(result[0].priority).toBeLessThan(result[1].priority);
  });

  it('should execute parallel workflows', async () => {
    const result = await orchestrator.execute(parallelPlan);
    expect(result.length).toBe(2);
  });

  it('should enforce consensus threshold', async () => {
    const result = await orchestrator.execute(consensusPlan);
    expect(result.passed).toBe(result.agreementLevel >= 0.7);
  });
});

Integration Tests

it('should coordinate team on complex task', async () => {
  const request = 'Customer reports billing issue';
  const response = await team.handleRequest(request);

  expect(response.router).toBeDefined();
  expect(response.billing).toBeDefined();
  expect(response.technical).toBeDefined();
  expect(response.consensus.passed).toBe(true);
});

Migration from ARAL-CORE

To upgrade from ARAL-CORE to ARAL-ORCH:

Extend Runtime

Add team lifecycle methods to your existing RuntimeLayer1

Create Orchestrator

Implement TeamOrchestrator with all 4 execution strategies

Update Configuration

Add orchestration section to your config

Run Tests

Execute ARAL-ORCH conformance test suite

Deploy

Update to multi-agent architecture

Performance Targets

ARAL-ORCH implementations should achieve:

Sequential: Latency = L1 + L2 + L3 + overhead
Parallel: Latency = max(L1, L2, L3) + overhead
Consensus: Latency = max(L1, L2, L3) + consensus time
Hierarchical: Latency = L_manager + max(L_specialists) + overhead

Where overhead < 100ms for all strategies.

Production Considerations

chart-line Monitoring

Track latency, throughput, consensus rates, and agent health continuously

shield-check Resilience

Implement automatic failover and graceful degradation

lock Security

Enforce RBAC between agents, encrypt inter-agent communication

arrow-up-down Scaling

Design for dynamic team scaling and load distribution

Certification

Once all 26 orchestration requirements are met, you can achieve ARAL-ORCH Conformance:

aral-test --profile orch --config ./team-config.json

# Expected result:
# ✅ ORC-001 to ORC-026: All requirements passed
# Status: ARAL-ORCH Conformant ✅

Display the badge:

[![ARAL-ORCH Conformant](https://img.shields.io/badge/ARAL-ORCH%20Conformant-success)](https://aral.dev/conformance/orch)

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